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Table 2.4
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016

Table 2.4
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Type of clearance status (appearing as row headers), Victims of family violence, Victims of non-family violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of clearance status	Victims of family violence						Victims of non-family violence
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Not cleared^{Table 2.4 Note 1}	9,065	16	5,369	19	14,434	17	33,919	29	44,730	34	78,649	31
Cleared by charge	34,628	60	13,063	46	47,691	55	62,642	53	58,186	44	120,828	48
Cleared otherwise	14,103	24	10,177	36	24,280	28	21,944	19	28,385	22	50,329	20
Complainant declined that charge(s) be laid	7,114	12	5,338	19	12,452	14	10,754	9	15,646	12	26,400	11
Reasons beyond the control of department	3,354	6	2,242	8	5,596	6	2,458	2	2,622	2	5,080	2
Departmental discretion	2,897	5	2,269	8	5,166	6	6,782	6	7,916	6	14,698	6
Other^{Table 2.4 Note 2}	738	1	328	1	1,066	1	1,950	2	2,201	2	4,151	2
Total^{Table 2.4 Note 3}	57,796	100	28,609	100	86,405	100	118,505	100	131,301	100	249,806	100
Note 1 'Not cleared' includes incidents where an accused person has been identified in connection with the incident, but where there is insufficient evidence to lay a charge or to clear the incident through other means. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 'Cleared by other means' includes suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, accused is less than 12 years of age, committal of accused to mental hospital, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, diversionary programs, incident cleared by a lesser statute, incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 For incidents that involve multiple victims, a single clearance status is recorded in relation to each victim in the incident. For instance, if charges are laid in relation to a violation against one of the victims, the clearance status for all victims will be ‘charged.’ Thus, under‑ or over‑counts are possible with respect to clearance status, and this may affect the 26% of family violence incidents that involve more than one victim or accused person. Return to note 3 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common‑law), parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in‑laws). Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused‑victim relationship was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. In cases of domestic violence, every Canadian jurisdiction has implemented some form of pro‑charging policies. The particular parameters of these pro‑charging policies can vary regionally. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident‑based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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Date modified:: 2018-01-17